Stem winding and setting watch



(No Model.)

G. V. WOERD.

STEM WINDINGAND SETTING WATCH. No. 341,786.

Patented May 11, 1886.

mi muilnmlmgullmuxu may@ UNITED STATES To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHARLEs V. XVOERD, of Valt-ham, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Ste1n-\Vind ing Vatches, of which the followingis a l'nll, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of stein winding and settingmechanisms of watchmovemcnts in which, in combination with a rotatingarbor or stem, preferably located in the pendant-knob of the watchcase,is employed a train ot` gearing in constant connection with saidrotating pendantarbor and carried by and arranged on a swinging orotherwise movable or shifting yoke, and all in such relation to thewinding and hand arbors lor wheels of the watch-movement that the swingor movement of said yoke in one direction places said train of gearinginto connection with thc winding arbor or wheel, and out of connectionwith the hand arbor or wheel, and its swing inthe other` directionplaces said train of gearing into connection with the hand arbor orwheel and out of connection with the winding arbor or wheel ot' themovement,

maintaining at all times its connection with the rotatingpem'lant-arbor, and all otherwise substantially as well known.

This invention in stem winding and setting mechanisms forwatch-movements of substantially the character above described consistsof a rotating and longitudinally-sliding arbor or stem, preferablylocated in the pendantknob of the watch-case, and suitably adapted tocommunicate its rotaryanovement to mechanism suitably connected thereto,and which is constructed with a peripheral beveling or cam-face, incombination with a swinging or otherwise suitable moving or shiftingyoke or plate carrying a train of gearing or other mechanism in constantconnection with said rotating and sliding arbor, and suitable to secure,when placed in connection with either the winding or the hand arbor orwheel, and suitably operated, a rotation thereof from the rotation olsaid arbor, and which is provided with an abutment in position to makedirect bearing and rest on said arbor and its said peripheral bevelingor cam-face, and all in such manner as to secure in the movement of saidrotating arbor lengthwise in one direc- PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES V. VOERD, OF VALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTQ.

STEM WINDING AND SETTING WATCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,786, dated May l1,1886.

Application tiled Duce-uber, 1885.

Serial No. 196,900. (No model.)

tion, preferably an outward direction relative to the watcli-movement, amovement ol" the yoke to place the train of gearing or other mechanismcarried by it'-, as aforesaid. into connection with the hand arbor orwheel and out ot' connection with the winding arbor or wheel of thewatch movement, and in the movement of said rotating arbor lengthwise inthe other and opposite direction, preteralily an inward directionrelative to the watchmovement, a movement ot" the yoke to place thetrain of gearing or other mechanism carried by it, as aforesaid, intoconnection with the winding arbor or wheel and out of connection withthchand arbor or wheel ot1 the watchmovement, and all otherwisesubstantially as hereinafter described.

Again, this invention consists in constructving the rotating and slidingarbor or stem having a peripheral lieveling or caint'ace, substantiallyas has been above described, with a peripheral depression or groovesuitably located to make a scat i'or said abutment of the yokc'when thetrain of gearing or other suitable mechanism carried by it, asaforesaid, is in connection with the hand arbor or wheel, and thussecure the retention and against accidental escape of said mechanism insuch connection, all substantially as hereinafter described.

ln the drawings forming a part of this specitication, Figure l, isa planor face view of the mechanism of this invention, and ct' a train ot'gearing suitable for its practical employment in connection with awatch-movement, and in position for winding the watch. Fig. 2 is asimilar view to Fie'. l, but illustrating the parts as in position forsetting the hands of the watch, and with some parts broken out and insection. Fie. 3 is asection online 3 3, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A represents the pillarplate; B, the top plate; U, thecenter wheel; D, the hour-wheel; E, the cannon-pinion; F, theminute-wheel; and G- its pinion, iliade preferably in one piecetherewith; and H a gearwheel of the winding barrel or arbor, all asusual in watch-movements, and therefore needing no particulardescription herein.

J is the rotating and sliding stem or arbor of the contrivances ol' thisinvention, and preferably it is to belocated within the pend- IOO antknob (not shown) of the watch-case and capable of turning in and slidinglengthwise through it, all as well known. This stem or arbor J is madein two parts or sections, K K, screwing the one into the other, all asshown, and so that they can be separated, leav- -Ying one, K2, in it-sbearings of stationary parallel blocks L of the pillar-plate A, and saidpart K2 is made square-sided, and thereon it carries a bevel piniongear-wheel, M, which thus can tni'n with the arbor when it is rotated,while at the same time the arbor can be l moved longitudinally orlengthwise through it, the bevel-gear being confined against movementlengthwise of the arbor by and between said bearing-blocks L therefor.

The bevelgear M meshes with a crown bevel gear-wheel, N, concentric andeither in one piece with orrigidly attached to a gearwhcel, O, and thetwo as one turning on and carried by a yoke or plate, P, centrallypivoted, as at Q, to the pillar-plate A. The gearwheel O meshes withgear-wheels R S, on opposite sides thereof, and the gear R is inAposition to be meshed with the gear-wheel H of the winding barrel orarbor when said yoke is swung in one and the proper direction therefor,and the gear S is in position for a concentric pinion-wheelT thereof tobe meshed with the minute-wheel F when the yoke is swung in the otherand proper direction therefor.

The minute-wheel F meshes directly with the cannon-pinion E, and itsconcentric pinion G meshes with the hour-wheel D of the watch-movement.position has its gear-wheel R in engagement with the gear-wheel H of thewinding arbor or barrel, and the pinion-wheel T of its gearwheel S outot' engagement with the minutewhecl F in connection with the hour-wheelD and cannon-pinion E, as has been described, and the yokeis held in itssaid position by the action of a bent spring, V. The spring V at one endis rigidly secured to the pillar-plate A, and at its other and free endit has bearing against a pin, a, of the yoke P, located at the oppositeend of the yoke to that at which the gear-wheel R is located. The swingof the yoke P to connect the train of gearing which it carries, as hasbeen described with the minute-wheel F, is against the action of thespring V bearing 011 the yoke.

In 'all positions of the yoke its train of gearing is always inconnection with the bevel gear-wheel M of the pendant arbor or stem Jbut in one position thereof, (preferably its normal positiom) Fig. l,only in connection' with the winding-wheel H, and in the other positionthereof, Fig. 2, only in connection with the minute-wheel F.

So far as has been described, the two-part pendant arbor or stem J, theswinging yoke P, and train of gearing Q R S T'carried by it and thegearing to make connection between said train of gearing and either thegear-wheel H of the winding barrel or arbor or the min- Yend b is towardthe bevel-wheel M of the ar- The yoke P in its normal nte-wheel F differin construction and arrangement in no material respect from that shownand described in the schedule annexed to the Letters Patent of theUnited States issued to me, dated November 17, 1885, No. 330,537, and ofthemselves, either singly or in combination, they constitute no part ofthis i nvention, and have only been illustrated and described as aconstruction and arrangement of such parts which is most preferable, andby and through the means of which the real clements or contrivances ofthis invention, consisting in one. part of a rotating andV sliding arboror stem, substantially suchA as already described, and a constructionthereof, and of the shifting yoke, to be now describedin detail, can bemost successfully and eficiently utilized for the purpose designed.

.U is a face surrounding the pendant-arbor J. This face bevels orinclines toward the axis of'the arbor, and its greater diameter or bor,and its smaller diameter or end cl toward the outer edge or periphery ofthe pillarplate.

XV is a pin or abutment carried by a side projection or arm, X, of theyoke P, and with the yoke in its normal position, Fig. l, said abutmentis at rest upon thc arbor at the smaller end, d, of the beveling orcam-face U of the arbor. This abutment NV of the yoke is held to itsbearing on the beveling or calnface U of the pendant-arbor by thetension of the spring V of the yoke, and inpul'ling the stem or arboroutward, said beveling bearingface of the arbor riding upon the abutmentW of the yoke-causes the yoke to be swung upon its center at Q, and thusthe connection of its train of gearing with the gear-wheel H of thewinding arbor or barrel to be broken and a connection made between saidtrain and the minute-Wheel F of the watch-movement, said abutment of theyoke finally coming to a seat or rest in a peripheral groove, Y, of thearbor at and inside of the larger end, b, of its beveling or cam-face U,and which is of suitable shape therefor and of suicient depth to securea hold of the abutment W of the yoke therein against accidental escapeas the pends ant-arbor is turned to set the hands, while at the sametime, with a slight inward push 011 the pendant-arbor, it can escapetherefrom and set the yoke free to the action of its spring to returnthe yoke and pendant-arbor to their normal position, and to place thetrain of gearing carried by theyoke out of connection with theminute-wheel F and into connection with the wheel H of the winding arboror barrel.

The mechanism of this invention plainly is most simple, direct,positive, and eiiicient in operation, and, as is obvious, susceptible ofmost ready adaptation to varying arrangement of winding and hand-settingmechanism for watch-movements. Again, by reversing the direction of thecam-face U of the arbor or stem J the arbor may be adapted to pro- IOOduce aswineof the 7oke l) on an inward slide nient lV. of said fokebearine on the cam of thereof, instead of an outward slide, as has beenparticularly described.

Vhile the contrivances constituting this invention have been hereindescribed in eonnection with one construction and arrange ment of ashifting yoke and a train of gearing thereon, it is to be understoodthat the invention is in no ivay to be limited thereto, said inventionconsisting, in substance, ofabearing cani-face upon a rotating andsliding arbor or stem, preferably located in the pendantknob ol' theivatclrcase, and of an abutment on a swinging or otherwise suitablymoving or shifting yoke directly bearing on said cam face, and whichyoke carries mechanism by and through which, on a longitudinal movementoi' the pendant-arbor in the proper direction therefor, to establishconnection between said arbor or stein and either the winding or thehandtrain of the xvatelrmoven'ient, as the ease may be.

Having thusdescribed my invention, ivhatl claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

l. In a watclrmovement ot' otherwise suitable construction, incombination, a rotatory longitudi nally-slidiug stem or arbor, .l K,madein attachable and detachable parts to permit, detached, the then removalof' the movement from the case, a cam-periphery, U, and pinion-wheel, M,ol' said arbor, the pinion turning with the arbor, but otherwiseconfined against movement, a swinging plate or yoke, P,With spring 'Vpressing against it, an abutsaid arbor, and meshing gear-Wheels O R Scarried by the yoke, the one, O, driven from the pinion M oi arbor, andthe others. R S, arranged to connect, respeetivelywith the Winding andsetting trains of the watch-movement, substantially as described, forthe purposes specilied.

2. in a watchmovement ol otherwise suitable construction, incombination, a rotatory longitndinally-sliding stein or arbor, J K, madein attachable and detachable parts to permit,detaeheththe then removalofthe movement from the ease, a cainlperiphery, U, peripheral groove Y,and. pinioirwheel M of said arbor, the pinion turningwith the arbor, butotherwise confined against movement, a swinging plate or yoke, l), witha spring, V, pressing against it, an abutment, XV, of said yoke bearingon the cam U, and to seat in the peripheral groove Y oi" said arbor, andmeshing gear-wheels O lt S carried by the yoke, the one, O, driven fromthe pinion M ot' arbor, and the others, RS, arrragedto connect,respectively,\\'ith the winding and setting trains oi theWatclrniovement, substantially as described, for the purposes specified.

.l n testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence olltwo subscribing witnesses.

{3i-IAS. V. XVOERD.

Xi tnesses:

'\\\r. S. BnLLoWs, Anania/r XV. BROWN.

